How Musk built his empire off of government contracts
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Desmond Butler with the Washington Post reports that Elon Musk – whose DOGE team is trying to cut down on government funding — is himself one of the biggest beneficiaries of taxpayer money, having received at least $38 billion from government contracts over more than 20 years.
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